Originally Posted by Excargodog

So far, on the diplomatic front, this sorts of covers it:



An excerpt:





At this point the ‘sunk expense fallacy’ is working heavily on both sides. Nobody wants to concede anything because of how much this war has already cost them in casualties. And neither had great demographics even before they started taking casualties by the hundreds of thousands and - at least in the case of Ukraine - from massive outmigration of refugees.